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The Land of Painted Caves - Earth's Children (Paperback)

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Paperback 800 Pages
Published: 01/03/2012
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The triumphant finale in the Earth's Children series, Jean M. Auel's internationally bestselling reconstruction of pre-historic life, when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth.

Ayla, Jondalar, and their little daughter, Jonayla are home. Yet Ayla struggles to find a balance between her duties as a new mother and her training to become a Zelandoni - one of the Ninth Cave community's spiritual leaders and healers.

Once again, Jean M. Auel combines her brilliant narrative skills and appealing characters with a remarkable re-creation of the way life was lived thousands of years ago, rendering the terrain, dwelling places, longings, beliefs, creativity and daily lives of Ice Age Europeans as real to the reader as today's news.

Set 25,000 years in the past, yet utterly relatable today, The Land of Painted Caves is an epic tale of love, identity and the struggle to survive, rich in detail of language, culture, myth and ritual.

Praise for Jean M. Auel

'Beautiful, exciting, imaginative' New York Times

'A major bestseller . . . A remarkable work of imagination' Daily Express

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN: 9780340824276
Number of pages: 800
Weight: 554 g
Dimensions: 201 x 172 x 39 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

Jean Auel's amazing, ground-breaking series reaches a stunning conclusion. . . . . If you ever wondered what it was like for the first reasoning humans, this is the perfect way to learn. It's as though Auel has opened up a time portal, travelled with and lived with actual human beings as they begin their journey towards the people we are today. Moving and majestic, this story sweeps all before it and encompasses everything we know about our ancestors as they trek through central Europe and set up home in the caves there. All life is here in all its glory, the loves, the jealousy, the rivalry, the medicines . . . A compelling historical drama with every modern trait of the human being, but set in the days when the world was young. Magnificent, and a privilege to be able to read it. You must read this. - Books Monthly

She deftly creates a whole world, giving a sense of the origins of class, ethnic and cultural differences that alternately divide and fascinate us today. Among modern epic spinners, Auel has few peers. - Kirkus Reviews

Incredibly poignant and relevant to today - Sun 4 stars

She does have a most extraordinary talent for recreating lost worlds - Kate Saunders, Books Quarterly

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“Slower paced than previous books in the series”

This latest book in the series leaves behind the sweeping adventures of previous novels and tells instead of mature people doing mostly grown-up things. There's the balance between work and family life, rather... More

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“love it”

yes it was a long time coming. Some of it was repeated but if you had not read any of the previous books you would find it hard to follow otherwise. I did enjoy the cave painting discriptions and it makes me want to... More

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“Great Series”

I really hope this is not the last in the series!!! I have enjoyed the beautifully described lives of Ayla and Jondalar and there journey through ancient lands. Although there is a bit of repetition throughout the... More

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